Looks like you use single ( ' ) quotes.
I use double ( " ).
Singles, I recall are for things like:
J_Char db A'J'
or
Hex_Num db H'FF'
Those define SINGLE bytes
Sequences or Strings of bytes are delimited by double quotes.

What the error message is telling, I believe, is that it is
taking the sequence you want and trying to fit it into the
word size of the processor core you are using.  And it don't
fit so it truncates if for you and tells you about it.

GL,
Walt...

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas C. Sefranek [mailto:tcs@CMCORP.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:07 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Ascii constants


"Quitt, Walter" wrote:

> I do it this way (with no error messages)
>
> YaYa db "Ya Ya Ya",0
>
> for a NULL terminated ASCII string

Error[124]  : Illegal argument (expected single character)
Message[303]: Program word too large.  Truncated to core size. (4400)
0005 0400           00078 Init_Done       DB      'D o',0
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